The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-05
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

the Legislature to organize a pardon COM
mission to help him out.
-Ex-Congressman C. F. Reed owns the
largest wheat field in the world in Stanislaus
county. California. Ii consists of 10000
acres in one unbroken.stretch along the bank
of the San Joaquin river.
George jackson, an iron grinder at
Springfield, o., has just died suddenly from
the effects of inhalation of the iron uust
which prevaded the atmosphere of the shop
in which he was employed.
Secret Service Agent Porter got a new
counterfeit silver dollar on Monday from a
State street jeweIor in Chicago. 1t is a
beautifully made coin with faultIess outlines,
a proper weight and deceptive ring. Cap
tain Porter fears il may heve widespread
circulation.
Sergeant Mason, made famous for hav-
ing shot at Guiteau during his trial for the
murder of President Garfield, has become a
prosperous and veay quie: farmer in Orange
county. Virginia. He, with Betty and sew
eral babies. are reported to be perfectly
comfortable in all respects.
Thomas Foster, a hermit OF Shamong,
Y J., was about dying and it was proposed
to send him to the almshouse, which he
refused and told the Overseer of the Poor 10
examine a trunk in his room, which was
found TO have a fortune in it of gold and
silver. old State bank notes and bonds of
private Institutions. He had lived for years
In an old log hut.
Mrs. Joseph Bennett, a wealthy lady of
Wichita Kan m Eri1av
by her stepdaughter. Mollie Bennett, Hot
Springs. Mrs. Bennett had refused the girl
admission TO her house. The girl, with a
young man as companion. drove up to the
house and when Mrs. Bennett opened the
door stabbed her twenty times in the face,
neck and arms. The lady will probably die
One of the hens of John Aldrich, of
Naugatuck, while devoting all her energies
to Matching out a lot of eggs was taken sick
and died. The rooster of the flock immedi-
ately took her place, and has now been Sit
ting on the nest of eggs for nearly thee
weeks. He dail leaves the Lest at a cer-
tain time. bristles up and clucks as aatur-
ally as any old hen, and to all appearances
and perpCses Is a fullfiedged motherly old
hen
"A butcher near Cincinnati the other day
proudly exhibited $3.50 gold piece that he
had found IN the paunch of a COW be had
slaughtered for the marKet. Several buttons
and other foreign substances, so corIOded
and decOmpOsed as to be unrecOgnizable,
were found with the money which was
worn as smooth IS glass. A hole through
its rim would Indicate t:lat the articles had
been At one time a charm string or some
childish ornament.
Timothy Buckley. a well-Gigger. struck
a match to light pipe at the bottom of a
twen'v-seven foot well at Stanford. Ills. on
Friday of last week. The match ignited a
stream Of natural gas, and the explosion
which followed blew the fixtures from the
well and left Buckley a prisoner il the
flames. Mites Brooks, John Kearby, Tom
Buckley and others on the surface, were
badly burned in getting the corpse out OF
the well.
Reporter John NJ. WaIi. Of the New
York Tribune. was journalist in Ireland,
fellow-pTisoDer with Parnell In the XII
mainham jail and he accompanied William
O'BTien on his crusade through Canada
against the Marquis of LsDsdowne. Dur
ing the riot at Toronto he was struck on the
head by a stone while standing next 20
O'Brien. Last week he received a testi-
mOnial from some friends OF Home Rule in
New York in The shape of a check foI 81, 200
and a handsome diamond ring
After the war two Union soldiers named
Halsey and Darnley, from Lowell, Mass
were in New Orleans. and one day got into
a street fight with a stranger. HaIsey threw
a billet of wood at the stranger, but il stuck
Darnley, who fell. and Halsey. believing he
had killed him, fed to New York. He
changed his name aud went West. A few
days ago he visited Lowell. and while walk
ing IN the street met Darnley, whom he
believed he had slain.
"A single highwayman held up two coach
es near Dripping Springs 5lancocounty Tex
as, Friday highland robbed the mail pouches
of their contents. except two registered
packages which he overlooked. He first
stopped the coach from Fredericksburg,
near where II was to meet the coach from
austin. he bound the driver hand and foot,
and gagged him. When the coach from
Austin came np he repeated his performance
and rode off with the conteats of the mail.
The drivers do not think they could identify
the robber.
The Increase in the consumption of
bananas in this country is one of the note
worthy features Of that description of i'm
ports Forty years ago a single banana
schooner at long intervals was the fact. Now
they come in great ocean steamers only.
The larger quantity is received between May
and September but throughout the year
the arrival Of banana laden steamers will
average four each week or say 200 per year.
In the old times three to six days we're re-
quired to unload little schooner Now a
great steamer will discharge a cargo of
bananas in ten hours.
The Pacific Mail stes mer City of Rio de
Janeiro arrived last week at San Francisco,
bringing Hong Kong advices to July 1 and
Yokohama news TO July 9. By the loss of
the steamer Sir John Lawrence in the Bay
of Bengal, before reported. 800 lives we're
lost. mainly women of the best families In
Bengal on pilgrimage to j JuggerDaut. From
May p to 20 cyclone ragged in the Bay of
Bengal, with disastrous results to shipping
and attended with great loss of life The
storm was the seyerest since 1866. The
passengers on the Sir John Lawrence mum
bered $50, the officers and crew numbering
fifty.
One day last week very large black
snake measuring feet inches, entered the
house of Mr.. AIonzo Baldwin, a farmer
near Missouri City, Mo-. and quietly crawled
up to bird cage hanging on tie wall, con-
tanning four pretty canaries, aud devoured